In this paper, a combinatorial auction problem is modeled as a NP-complete set packing problem and a Lagrangian relaxation based heuristic algorithm is proposed. Extensive experim...
Yunsong Guo, Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues, Jiqing T...
We study simple greedy approximation algorithms for general class of integer packing problems. We provide a novel analysis based on the duality theory of linear programming. This e...
In this paper we introduce a new graph based bidding language for combinatorial auctions. In our language, each bidder submits to the arbitrator a generalized flow network (netbid...
Madalina Croitoru, Cornelius Croitoru, Paul H. Lew...
We study the combinatorial auction (CA) problem, in which m objects are sold to rational agents and the goal is to maximize social welfare. Of particular interest is the special ca...
We present a new type of monotone submodular functions: multi-peak submodular functions. Roughly speaking, given a family of sets F, we construct a monotone submodular function f ...